Improvement in spoke-socket foe carriage wheels



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attent ttiiiw A. .IICARLETON OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters .Pa-tent No. 101,821, dated April 12, 1870.

The Schedule referred-to in these Letters Patent and making part` ofthe same l To all to whom it may concern field, Hampden county, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Spoke-Socket; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and clear description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In the drawingsv Figure I is a. side view of my invention, shown in a sectional view of a Wheel-felloe.

Figure II is a detail sectional view ofthe saine.

Figure III is a plan view; and

Figure 1V is an inverted plan view My device consists simply oi' a cup of metal. A, having a Bange, B, and flange G. The cup being sunk in the felloe of the wheel, and the flange B resting against the inner surface of the felloe, the bottom of the ou`p being. in Contact vwith the tire, and the ange C, in connection with flange B, holds the socket rigidly in place, prevent-ing any lateral motion of the same in the felloe. The spolgekrests in tbe cup, with its extreme end against the bottom. This prevents the spoke from driving into the felloe, and also from becoming loose and rattling.

There is no shoulder on the spoke at this end, it

being merely fitted tightly into the cup. By this means a neat, serviceable, and etiective spoke-socket is obtained, and the wheel is made much more durable, and, from the fact ofthe spokes having firm metal sockets, the whole wheel may be made much lighter than any now in use without proportionate loss of strength or wear.

Now having described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure' by"-`Let ters Patent, is

The combination in a, spoke-socket of the metallic cup A, with flanges B and C, the whole being so arranged with the spoke that it rests against the bottom of the cup A, as shown and described. v

` A. J. CARLETON. Witnesses: i

J. B. GARDINER M. P. HYDE. 

